Brian Meeks was born in Montreal, Quebec,[1] of West Indian parents, and grew up in Jamaica.
His novel, Paint the Town Red (published by Peepal Tree Press in 2003), is an exploration of the turbulent years of the 1970s in Jamaica (the first Michael Manley administration) through the eyes of a young middle-class man.
[2] Meeks is a Professor of Africana Studies and former chair (2015–2021) of the department at Brown University.
[3] He taught political science at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, and was director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies until 2015.
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